Pyramid Butterfly
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Yellowtang
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My experience, long as was feed heavly was ok but I cut back on the food for
algae reasons and it became a menace.
JR,
algae reasons and it became a menace.
JR,
I would contend that your particular fish would have picked eventually regardless of how well it was fed. Keep in mind these fish forage around and pick at food constantly in nature. Feed it 5 times a day and it'll still wanty to eat.
Yellowtang
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I agree. I have never seen a totally reef safe fish. Even the percs I have now one will go over to the candy cane coral and suck on one of the heads for a while but never seems to cause any damage. This is not an exaggeration every fish I have ever had has picked on or eatin coral eventually, no matter how reef safe it was supposed to be period.
JR,
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Pitcom
Not Reef Safe
My female Percula likes to bite the tips off of my orange torch coral. I have no idea why she does this but she loves it. She spits it out and will chase it arond the tank for an hour or so like its a game.
Yellowtang
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Plus most of the fish eat constantly, the more food there is the more they eat even if the food isn't necessary for survival and their stomach is full, they just don't process it fully and excreet partially eaten food which other fish eat. Plus the coral also benefit from this behavior by catching pieces of partially eaten food and oils to include amino acids and stuff.
JR,
JR,
